I guess it should've occurred to me to ask why notamy wants that. HA? Hardware-specific differences maybe? Those are the uses I know of.

It's an issue of hardware differences + some of the software not being designed to be clustered Kubernetes/etc.-style (and it's not mine so I can't just rewrite it).

OK, that makes sense. But why use a platform that abstracts physical layout when you already have a physical layout in mind?

This isn't really something that I have experience with, hence asking; my issue is mainly not really knowing the tools available, therefore I'm looking in the wrong place.

Gotcha! I hope I was helpful.

Normally in these circumstances I'd recommend BOSH but, off the top of my head, I don't know what kind of affinity can be defined. So it might be another rabbit hole.

> Generally, though, you're fighting the high level idea of these tools by trying to tie to specific hardware.

I figured as much, but I'm trying to avoid inventing my own solution if one already exists.

However, you can run Flynn in single machine mode, which guarantees your hardware will be set, and you get the best of both worlds (CLI + GUI + Specific Hardware)